Not only can we teach our children to read but we can also defeat illiteracy in our prisons.
Pupils enter the dining hall smiling and loudly reciting Shelley’s Ozymandias.
Pupils are “exposed” to German with no explanation of the structures of the language, leaving them with no idea of how to speak or write it.
This is history in the making, and that’s what it’s all about.
I’m delighted to announce that the Pearson and AQA exam boards have agreed to continue providing the foreign languages they were offering.
The only theory teachers learn is a canon of decades-old discredited psychology that just happens to be self-reinforcing.
The best and brightest are going to the schools where they are most needed.
In considering what we can learn from the ancients, we must also consider what values we want to impart to the next generation.
Kandel’s work is as important as the discovery of DNA, and it will revolutionise education once it becomes more widely known.
We could be seeing the start of a Royal College of Teaching.
Instead of simply dismissing the findings that contradict our worldview, we should seek deeper explanations.
He deserves much credit, but his reforms aren’t the game-changer some would claim.
Blunkett made it very difficult for schools to deal with poor behaviour
This education minister knows what she fights for and loves what she knows.
We need to train more teachers if the Government is to ensure that every child has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.